Gallup, meet Google. The web giant has launched a hub for the 2012 election that tracks the popularity of presidential candidates using search trends, mentions in Google News and YouTube views, rather than more traditional polling data. Google’s new politics site, available atGoogle.com/elections, marks the company’s latest effort to move beyond indexing information and to develop [...]
Anita Perry, the wife of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, said she sympathized with the unemployed Friday because her son resigned from his job at Deutsche Bank to campaign for his father, reports CNN. “He resigned his job two weeks ago because he can’t go out and campaign with his father because of SEC regulations,” she [...]
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain reacted to the news Thursday night that the ice cream flavor he nicknamed himself no longer exists. After former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO the “flavor of the week” last month, Cain said on “The Tonight Show,” “I’m Haagen Dazs Black Walnut,” and that the [...]
Texas Gov. Rick Perry blitzed the morning shows ahead of a jobs speech Friday in Pittsburgh, Pa., trying to deflect attention away from his falling poll numbers and association with Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress and toward his jobs plan. In multiple appearances, Perry said that polls go “up and down,” and that he remained unconcerned [...]
WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) was bullish on Wednesday on the Democratic Party’s chances in the 2012 election, saying the party is likely to keep incumbents in office and pick up a few others. “I think it’s moving in the right direction,” he said during a breakfast at moderate think tank Third Way. “It’s [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s presidential campaign staff on Wednesday accused former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney of changing his positions on a series of issues, offering a preview of what could be their central argument against the Republican presidential candidate next year. Obama’s campaign said in a conference call with reporters that Romney had shifted [...]
CONCORD, N.H. — Seizing modest momentum in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, businessman Herman Cain promised to invest in additional staff and campaign more aggressively in New Hampshire and Iowa. “We have run this very lean by design. We are now going to ramp up,” he told reporters near the New Hampshire State [...]
WASHINGTON — “He never talks about his faith,” Rick Perry spokesman Mark Miner said of the Texas governor earlier this year. Miner’s statement is not entirely true. Perry has spoken in some detail this year, before and after becoming a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, about how he became a Christian. But Perry’s tale [...]
After three weeks of watching Rick Perry flail around in confusion and exhaustion, this was the week that something that had to finally give. It began in Florida, with Herman Cain winning the state’s Presidential 5 Straw Poll. It may seem hard to believe that another straw poll, at this late date, smaller in scope [...]
HuffPost reporters have completed an extensive project to uncover how the 2012 GOP presidential candidates give to charity. Many of the candidates have clearly stated positions on the role of philanthropy in politics. But how do their actual records stand up to their rhetoric? From miserly to generous, principled to contradictory, the candidates exhibited diverse [...]
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